Accessing Nature: Agrarian Change, Forest Laws and their Impact on an Adivasi Economy in Colonial India

dc.contributor.authorDas Gupta, Sanjukta
dc.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
dc.coverage.regionMiddle East & South Asiaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-16T17:38:10Z
dc.date.available2010-08-16T17:38:10Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstract"This article discusses how changing access to nature impacted an adivasi people, the Hos of Singhbhum. Without romanticizing the pre-British past, it may be argued that for the Hos of the time there had been dependence both on the forest and on cultivation, which had ensured them a minimum livelihood. This paper explores how their access to nature gradually diminished under colonial rule through the twin governmental policies of expansion of the agrarian frontier and restriction of the forests to the indigenous population. This led to the sedentarisation of the adivasis, further contributing towards agrarian expansion in India. However, this article argues that the extension of cultivation did not, however, benefit the Hos. Instead, the nature of the increase in acreage in Singhbhum, led to new agricultural practices, which, together with the restrictive forest laws and lack of new irrigation facilities, led to an agrarian crisis in the region, forcing the Hos to leave their lands and seek their fortunes elsewhere."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalConservation and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthOctober-Decemberen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber4en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages227-238en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume7en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/6071
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectagricultureen_US
dc.subjectfamineen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectforestsen_US
dc.subjectAdivasi (Indian People)en_US
dc.subject.sectorAgricultureen_US
dc.subject.sectorForestryen_US
dc.titleAccessing Nature: Agrarian Change, Forest Laws and their Impact on an Adivasi Economy in Colonial Indiaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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